RT Book, Section
A1 Hui, David
A1 Bruera, Eduardo
A2 Duffy, James D.
A2 Valentine, Alan D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1125786682
T1 Palliative Medicine and the Cancer Patient
T2 MD Anderson Manual of Psychosocial Oncology
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071624381
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1125786682
RD 2024/04/20
AB Despite  significant  progress  in  the  treatment  of  cancer,  approximately  half  of  all  cancer  patients  would  eventually  succumb  to  their  disease,  with  one  third  of  the  deaths  happening  within  6  months  of  diagnosis.1  Palliative  care  is  an  approach  that  improves  the  quality  of  life  of  patients  and  their  families  living  with  a  life-threatening  illness  through  the  prevention  and  relief  of  suffering  by  means  of  early  identification  and  impeccable  assessment  and  treatment  of  pain  and  other  problems,  physical,  psychosocial,  and  spiritual.2  Good  symptom  management  contributes  not  only  to  improving  patients'  quality  of  life,  but  also  to  supporting  patients  through  intensive  treatments.  The  58th  World  Health  Assembly3  emphasizes  that  palliative  care  should  be  represented  as  one  of  the  four  pillars  of  modern  oncology,  alongside  the  disciplines  of  medical,  radiation,  and  surgical  oncology.  Indeed,  as  patients  with  advanced  cancer  live  longer  as  a  result  of  advances  in  cancer  therapy,  the  need  for  palliative  care  is  only  going  to  increase.